Letters of recommendation from same subject area

[Anonymous]

DP - My kid isn’t too sure how good recs can be from their stem teachers. They either aren’t the more personable teachers this year. I wish a sophomore science teacher could be used, but the AP teacher makes more sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kid wants to study humanities and plans to ask 2 English teachers for letters of recommendation. These teachers both taught him junior year in different classes (AP and a niche area), and have the best relationship with him inside and outside class. Other teachers (STEM, history, lang) don’t know him as well and probably wouldn’t add anything other than generic to his application. What do you think?

The problem is that there are plenty of humanities with a quantitative component. Political Science will need the ability to analyze polling and other statistical data. Economics...well of course that will be quantitative. Many history classes will involve looking at historical economic data or other data fields.

This is why having 1 STEM and 1 Humanities HS recommendation generally always make sense.

I suppose if your kid is going to be a Creative Writing major, that might be quite different.

The problem is you don’t know what the humanities are.

Seems like your problem is you are an idiot. Poli Sci and history are definitely humanities.

OP, the most important thing is that the recommendation is good. Sounds obvious, but many AOs are surprised by the number of neutral to slightly negative rec letters they get.